Sea turtles have inhabited the world’s oceans for more than 100 million years but are now an endangered species. There are seven different species that survive today, and they are found in all of the major oceans apart from the polar ones. Their favourite habitats are in the waters over continental shelves. In the first […]

The population of the Pacific Walrus has been declining for a number of years, and their plight was brought to the world’s attention in 2009 when 200 dead animals were found near Icy Cape on the north coast of Alaska. This was followed by groups of dead walruses being found at Point Lay with 64 […]

There are currently between 20,000 and 25,000 polar bears in the world today. In the 1980s it was estimated there were around the same figure, so it appears that in the last 30 years the figure has remained stable. It has always been difficult to accurately count the numbers of polar bears as their locations […]

In 2016 the world wildlife fund estimated that there were 3890 tigers surviving in the wild. This figure had seen a rise in the numbers from 3200 that were released in 2010, that had followed a century of declining tiger numbers. At the start of the 20th century there were an estimated 100,000 tigers that […]

Animals that are endangered species are those that are likely to become extinct. In 2012 the International Union for Conservation of Nature estimated that there were 3079 endangered animals. The IUCN has two lists it publishes, its red list and its critically endangered list. The IUCN was created in 1948 to encourage international governments to […]